by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 28, 2026 | Scam of the day
ADT, the country’s largest home security company in the United States became aware on April 20th that it had suffered a data breach which, according to Have I Been Pwned, a terrific website that tracks data breaches, resulted in person information of 5.5...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 24, 2026 | Scam of the day
Data breaches have become an all-too-common feature of life today and they pose a significant threat to all of us because regardless of how careful we are at protecting our personal data, we are only as secure as the companies and governmental agencies that hold our...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 4, 2026 | Scam of the day
A Nike data breach that occurred around January 21, 2026 has resulted in a lawsuit being filed by Maria Gomez of California who is seeking class action status to represent all of the victims of the data breach. The lawsuit claims that while Nike became aware of the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 15, 2026 | Scam of the day
In the Scam of the Day for December 22, 2023 I first told you about the data breach involving all thirty-six million customers of Internet service provider Comcast Cable Communications which does business as Xfinity in which usernames, hashed (encrypted) passwords,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 13, 2026 | Scam of the day
It was two weeks ago that I first told you about the data breach at Panera Bread. It was done by the English speaking hacking group ShinyHunters, who successfully stole personal information including customer names, email addresses, phone numbers home addresses and...
